Necktie knot form



'Nov 26,1946. ,'E SAXT N 2,411,640

NECKTIE KNO'I FORM Filed April 20', 1945 CLARENCE 5.5 "XTDN ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 26, 1946 4;. .i'

. STAT ES PATENT OF FICE NECKTIE KNOT FORM Clarence E. Saxton, San Diego, Calif. Application April 20, 1945, Serial No. 589,334

1 Claim. 1

This invention relates to neck-tie knot forms, for the purpose both of facilitating the forming and tying of the neck-tie and also for supporting the tie to its best form and position at the neck of the wearer.

The principal object of the invention is to provide an integral wire form, upon which the tieknot may be readily and artistically formed as a four-in-hand neck-tie.

Another object is to provide an integral necktie form of metal wire or other suitable material, around and upon which form the neck-tie may be folded in such a way as to build up a neat and attractive knot, and which wire form includes a main, triangular wire frame or form corresponding to the downwardly tapered knot of the completed neck-tie and upon which the knot of the tie is supported, the upper and lower ends of this form being bowed or looped outwardly for correspondingly pressing and holding the neck-tie to its appropriate outthrust position upon the wearer, and the extremities of the wire form being turned inwardly at the lower end thereof for lockingly engaging the free strand of the tie and laterally inwardly at its upper end for overlaying the free strand thereat and holding it to proper position.

The drawing exemplifies a preferred structure and formation of the wire form comprising the subject matter of the invention, and

Figure 1 is a rear elevational view of the wire form, shown partly in solid and partly in broken lines, and showing the medial portion of a necktie as partially applied thereto in the process of forming the knot of the tie.

Figure 2 is a view similar to that of Figure 1, showing the knot of the tie as substantially formed and completed.

Figure 3 is a view similar to those of Figures 1 and 2, showing the knot of the tie as completed 4 upon the wire form inside, the turned extremities of the form alone showing in this view.

Figure 4 is a top plan view of the wire form alone. 7

Figure 5 is a rear elevational view of the wire form alone.

The invention is constructed of a single length of wire to the general triangular form as indicated by the numeral 5, or in lieu of wire the device might be stamped out of sheet metal. The tie form as shown includes a main triangular wire frame 6 which corresponds in shape to the downwardly tapered knot l of the completed knotted neck-tie as positioned upon the wearer. The frame 6 includes the lateral and angularly disposed strands or lengths 1a, connected at the lower end thereof by the outwardly curved bight 8, and having its upper free end turned laterally inward as indicated at 9 for overlaying and holding the free end of the tie in manner later to be pointed out. At the upper end of the frame or form the laterally extended cross wire or connecting wire In is also curved outwardly or forwardly. Thus the outwardly turned bight 8 at the lower end and the similarly turned cross wire ill at the upper end thereof serveto support the tie as formed upon the frame to an appropriate out-standing position. The end of the upper cross wire I0 is brought down in parallelism with the adjacent lateral wire Ia of the main triangular frame 6 at that side of the form, and the lower extremity thereof is turned inward perpendicularly to the plane of the form as a whole. The down-turned end of the cross-wire I0 is indicated at ii and the inturned end or extremity thereof is indicated at [2. This inturned extremity i2 is designed and adapted to lockingly engage the lower free end of the tie, to hold same in fixed position after the knot of the tie is formed.

In use the conventional four-in-hand necktie is employed, and as shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3, and including the main or frontal end A, the narrow neck-band B and the secondary free end 0. The wire form 5 is placed medially on the back of the neck-tie, so that the lower end C falls down in approximate alignment with the tie end A. The tie is then pinched around the outturned or convexed frontal bight ill of the cross wire at this upper end of the form and there held by a thumb and fore-finger of the'user and the neck-band is pulled over and down to one sideof the frontal end or portion A (here illustrated as to the right side thereof) and then is passed forwardly of the portion A across to the opposite side thereof (here illustrated as to the left side), and is then passed up through the loop thus formed and back of the wire form 5,

' thence upward and around the neck of the user and the free end portion 0 is brought down back of the knot thus formed at the front and this knot is drawn taut, the free end portion C being finally locked underneath the laterally inturned upper end 9 of the form and hooked lower end 12 thereof. These several operations are all fully illustrated in the Figures 1 to 3, and from this description taken in connection with the drawing it is thought that the use and operation of the tie-form will be fully understood. And while I have here shown and described a turned section lying in a plane parallel to and inwardly of the plane of the side strands, and the upper end of the other of said side strands having an outwardly bowed section extending crosswise of the tie form and a continuation section extending downwardly and substantially parallel to one of the side strands, said continuation section terminating in an upwardly directed hook located below and in line with the curve 10 of said bight section.

CLARENCE E. SAXTON. 

